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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952608
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Subjective Well‐Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082755
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Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, Christopher; … - 2022
The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030761
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The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021
investigate how heterogeneity in cultural profiles is associated with overall life satisfaction and relevant domains (health … relationship between cultural participation and overall life satisfaction. Still, a more complex picture arises when considering … all the statistically significant differences in life and domain satisfaction across cultural consumption patterns. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324554
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Fast Times During Spring Breaks : Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
French, Michael T. - 2014
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received little attention in the literature – traffic safety. In particular, we estimate the impact of spring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049737
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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083692
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction : The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover
Gevrek, Deniz - 2017
first study that explores the employee satisfaction with salary raises relative to perceptions of other employees …' satisfaction with salary raises, and intended labor supply in an American university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962268
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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Meier, Stephan - 2011
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
Anand, Rahul - 2010
In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139035
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Right to Buy? Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
van Ham, Maarten - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
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